In car stereo advice

[Dickie Dastardly]

So I've just bought and fitted a couple of 4" speakers which were recommended as good upgrades to the standard Pioneer units; I've also bought a new pair of tweeters which I've yet to fit. I was looking at upgrading the stereo to a Bluetooth unit, not for phone calls but for music connectivity.

Questions are -
1. Should the tweeters be attached to the stereo unit via the front speaker connectors? (there are no front speakers in the car only the rears beneath the little qtr glass window).
2. What is the inline box connected to the tweeter?
3. Is the present stereo output insufficient for the speakers and will this adversely affect the reproduction?

Below are images of all three current items, any advice from experienced incar boffins most welcome.







Thanks
Richard

Edited by Dickie Dastardly on Tuesday 2nd May 19:57

[KSV]

Hi Richard

What speakers did you get and are they a marked improvement on the pioneers?

Colin

[RobXjcoupe]

The little box is an inline filter to stop bass frequencies damaging the tiny tweeter cone/dome.
You can power the tweeters with head unit power but you don't really have ideal speaker positions to produce any quality sound befitting your car

[Dickie Dastardly]

KSV said:

Hi Richard

What speakers did you get and are they a marked improvement on the pioneers?

Colin

They are Rockford Fosgate T142, can't say I notice a difference but I wondered if the stereo might be the problem now. Bottom line was initially did not want to spend a lot of cash when I only occasionally listed to music in car.

[KSV]

Thanks Richard.
I just fitted a new pioneer head unit so could play music from a usb stick, was wondering if upgraded speakers would make any difference as factory fitted ones are pretty basic but then again I didn't spend that much on the head unit so that could be the problem.


Colin

[Englishman]

I bought a set of Alpine SPG-13CS speakers and tweeters to both replace the pioneer units at the rear and to provide some sound from the tweeters at the front a couple of years ago. I've left the rear speaker grills off too. Also added a Kenwood KSC-SW11 behind the passenger seat to add some bass. Not as good as having full range speakers at the front somewhere, but been very pleased with the result since.

Edited by Englishman on Wednesday 3rd May 09:03

[allanb]

The quickest update i found when considering the speaker position is to add a baffle on the rear deck and put a couple of 6 inch components in there.

The void behind the baffle allows a nice amount of bass to be generated, and the fact that the speakers are both facing forward projects the sound directly towards you rather than the positins of the original 4 inch items.

I also built some 6 inch speakers into the front door grabs, which also works, but the rear deck addition was quick, simple and effective.

[Penelope Stopit]

If you decide to use rear speakers and no fronts, you should fit the tweeters near to the rear speakers and connect them to the rear speaker outputs